<p class="poetry">The woman called Folly<n id="1" /> is brash,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">she is naive<n id="3" /> and does not know<n id="4" /> anything.<n id="5" />p>

The young woman was very beautiful; she became the king&#8217;s nurse and served him, but the king did not have sexual relations with her.<n id="1" />p>

Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her.<n id="1" /> She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.

<p class="poetry">Even the stork knowsp> <p class="poetry">when it is time to move on.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The turtledove, swallow, and crane<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">recognize<n id="3" /> the normal times for their migration.p> <p class="poetry">But my people pay no attentionp> <p class="poetry">to<n id="4" /> what I, the <sc>Lordsc>, require of them.<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Yet<n id="1" /> until now<n id="2" /> she has refused to acknowledge<n id="3" /> that I<n id="4" /> was the onep> <p class="poetry">who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil;p> <p class="poetry">and that it was I who<n id="5" /> lavished on her the silver and gold &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">which they<n id="6" /> used in worshiping Baal!<n id="7" />p>

After two months she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. She died a virgin.<n id="1" /> Her tragic death gave rise to a custom in Israel.<n id="2" />

They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins &#8211; they had never had sexual relations with a male.<n id="1" /> They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.p>